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Add more requirements for building applications, and explain how to install apps that are hosted here.

commit0bf9e913bd7273029729e8ae718b8420a6dfcadd authorMatthias Clasen <matthias.clasen@gmail.com> dateMon 10 Apr 2017, 22:01 (10 years ago) parent23b1138
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1−This is where the magic happens.
1+Flathub
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4+Flathub is the central place for building and hosting flatpak builds.
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6+Building applications
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39Application manifests should go in their own branches, named after the application ID.
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2026so you don't need to specify a branch key. But if you do (not recommended), it must be "stable".
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2228Flathub requires that you build against an sdk that is itself hosted on Flathub. The same goes for
23−sdk extensions that may be required to build your application.
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29+sdk extensions that may be required to build your application. The easiest way to see what runtimes
30+are currently available is to install the flathub remote and use
31+```
32+flatpak remote-ls --runtime flathub
33+```
2534All applications in flathub should ship with appstream data.
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36+Using the flathub repository
37+----------------------------
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39+To install applications that are hosted on flathub, use the following:
40+```
41+flatpak remote-add flathub http://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
42+flatpak --user install flathub org.gnome.Recipes
43+```
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